conflict there is also believe dot dot rapture how to prevent a much bigger conflict between russia and nato that if russia didn't act. moment back in two thousand and fourteen that the nature would continue pushing across its border and there would be no other way to escape that direct confrontation how much do you crave at that oh very much so i mean there was a sort of a rehearsal for crimea some years beforehand and in georgia of course went under a lot of american encouragement of the saakashvili government but very provocatively towards russia and a couple of ethnic parts of georgia and iran and i think i forget the name of that number when the current dutch and russia drew a line that russia moved in with support for the local local governments local if the groups and drew a lot and that was a dress rehearsal if you like. ukraine became the real thing because for many years

before the the overthrow of the in the case which government for many years before two thousand and fourteen there was all kinds of encouragement being given to nationalistic elements in the crowd and the russian element by the united states and by certain european countries do you think they actually understood the seriousness of encouraging those kind of forces and the kind of reaction that they may provoke in russia where they understood and simply didn't care i think the latter i think they didn't care i think it was you know whatever we can do to encourage the build up of of anti russian opinion in ukraine is worth doing whatever the risks because ukraine so important strategically so important economically and if we can prise it away from the russian world to the nato world it would be worth spilling some china breaking some china and spilling lissac on

the way so i think they underestimated the seriousness of the nazi elements new crown. and russia had to draw a line somewhere in ukraine as if you get thrown in georgia what have they done and if that but they've helped a very small part of ukraine i mean. it's been done it pretty small amount of territory what five percent of ukraine they they've helped crimea carry out an act of free self-determination and. they did it under enormous provocation if they hadn't been in the mud square could they would not have been the warden at least mr kim and i could argue that the west did similar things in other countries but as western officials would reply to that there is no moral equivalency anyway we have to take a short break now but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. on. that

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welcome back to worlds apart with tony cabin the foremost charland diplomat in russia and the author of a book called return to moscow. mr kevin of what. we started discussing your crane before the break the break and there was definitely a genuine element in that uprising people wanted some change positive change they wanted today and to to corruption the they want to the more fair more representative a more transparent government and all of those. calls you can hear in russia these days changes also have pretty popular world in this country but i think russia's relationship with changes is interesting because as part of the loop and the former prime minister of the imperial russia once said everything changes in russian ten years and nothing in two hundred i wonder what are some of those changes the norm kynges that struck you when you came back to this country after

a very long break. well obviously we're talking about since the cold war years when i worked here forty six years ago it's a very different country now totally different in terms of material living standards in terms of the the the madness of the people the old rudeness and and roughness that i remember about russia wrist maybe it was a full picture even then but i certainly felt it and i don't feel it's a toll that i feel russians were very well managed people know what are the changes i think there is much greater self-confidence in russia today. and i think it's growing because i think russia has learnt in the last few years particularly since you cry and since that experience since syria. russia that. the west when it criticizes russia is not big but they haven't. basically tried to undermine russian self-esteem and i think russia has learned that yes we have our

own problems we have our own disputes we have to deal with for example gender equality we have to deal with the way we treat option the really the old the. particularly the way we treat homosexuals because i think for homosexuals it is still very biggest news about being russian and it shouldn't be that way but it's not my place and it's not the west good place to lecture russia about these things well i know you're very reluctant to criticize russia openly but you just mentioned this attitude towards the community and if you actually look at the polls you will see that russians by and large. homophobic they for example if you ask people do you mind homosexual couple living in the apartment next door to you they would usually say the majority would say no i don't care and yet in the political. environment these days you hear a lot about the traditional values the patriarchy and so on and so forth where in

fact i would argue they have realistically no place in the russian society this is a society that is. empowered by strong women that we have lots of single mother families you know women taking care of the entire families women tend to be i think in other countries too more tolerant towards people who are different so i wonder if you perhaps would go as far as to say that the russian elites are exploiting exploiting some of the things and perhaps fostering some of the negative attitudes that actually do not have that deep of a root in the russian culture not enough about russian to your question but i'm very interested in what you say i can only say that just recently in australia we've had an extremely controversial. new law passed in december which we call the marriage equality law which for the first time allowed a sexual couples to marry it was very difficult to get that passed because our

political elites were much more conservative than the population it was clear that the population wanted it that certain powerful politicians in the power limit and did their very best to to him paid it what i did find if i may extend the question a little is i'm probably of jewish origin i'm half irish catholic and half being a jewish by descent. i'd expect the degree of that to semitism in russia. i didn't encounter it and i was enormously impressed with the jewish museum . and its presentation of the jewish contribution to russian history and culture right through the years and russia conquered potent in the jewish population of poland and below russia became russian citizens that whole story was fascinating i left the museum with a spirit of uplift because i throw this show to russia and its row getting on the

path of decent mutually respectful relationship. issues a respectful relationship between russia and israel is not a problem i think they are now a little bit concerned that the personal relationship between putin and benjamin netanyahu is endangering the middle east peace process because everybody's so accommodating towards israel but rather than going into international affairs i want to ask you a specifically about logic and putin has been in power of on and off for eighteen years and you just recently speaking at one of the conferences here in russia you said that you wish and his foreign minister sergey lavrov along political careers the world needs now wisdom and moderation even if that's your genuine sailing donte think you know the long stay in power i'm a in danger of russia in the long run because. the power transition is inevitable

one day we all believe this world and. with having one leader even their very popular leader in power for so long don't you think that it will make russia vulnerable more vulnerable when time comes to hand over the keys to the kremlin to somebody else i see what you're getting at and i think you're worried about some sort of personality cult developing around putin especially in the western press by the way not so much in russia but i think also in the western press because much of the western coverage about russia is about putin that's right we we personalize everything and when i gave a lecture in perth i don't know whether it's the you know my website i've got that lecture and i've got the photographs that i put up during the lecture one of them in particular is a pair of photographs the there's an ordinary tass or something new this picture of putin's sitting in this disc of his head and shoulders and the next picture is the famous cover of the economist which portrayed putin as a devil it's

a photoshop image of exactly that same picture so we we demonize putin and mr cameron i am sorry for indigestion i think it's safe to say but both of us have a. fairly neutral if not positive attitude towards putin of what he has done for this country but. that none of us standing my question still stands don't you think that. you know he too has to think about what russia yeah will be after he's gone absolutely and i think and i talk about this in my book in the chapter about suicide oh i think he's trying to leave. a positive legacy of ideas the idea of the russian wilderness can mirror the idea of. civil is that he is actually trying to leave a legacy of a multicultural russia a russia of many of the cities not just of the docks russia. certainly proper respect for the dogs he has in england this respect for the anglican church but not

not of the periodic table of the ducks for other religions and i think he's trying to leave a legacy of multiculturalism and i talk about that quite a lot. he's trying to leave you know as thought up this question. what is the russian motherland if you're not if you're not off the docks what is the road enough to you and who's trying to help broaden that concept we have to do this in australia too because when i was young australia was basically what i think was sex and now we think we're well on the way to being a genuinely multicultural country and in that respect i think russia and australia have a lot in common already older as you point out in your book many commonalities between russia and australia being the outsiders being territorially expansive countries perhaps sometimes struggling to defined who they are but i want to bring you back to the question of lodging a pretense and sergey lavrov

a long political career is because there is now a rumor in moscow that sergei lavrov for example the foreign minister asked for his retirement several times because as much as he i assume loves his job it is quite tiring there was also speculation that logic put in wasn't planning on coming back to power or running for presidency again in two thousand and twelve but the events in libya and the murder of moammar gadhafi the disintegration of libya afterwards made him change his mind i wonder to what extent and western policies are responsible for keeping those perhaps not fully appreciated individuals in power for so long well those two room as you mentioned. may be a conspiracy theorist but i suspect the origins of some of those rumors think this is all part of trying to make russia feel weak about self and the information war it's ruthless and an ongoing thing against against russian stability but let me

come back. what what makes them special i remember even when i was forty seven years ago and certainly in most subsequent twenty five years as a diplomat the smartest people in russian embassies were almost the kind of creepy people now it's no accident that a young ambitious intelligent man like putin growing up in leningrad in fairly tough circumstances looking at his career opportunities just will join the k.g.b. there's nothing sinister about this it was the most cagey business there's a people see if that's what. it was where ambitious people would would gravitate and so it's a mark of it's an ability that he was promoted quickly in the k.g.b. and finished up in east germany at the time of the which i just left it off a friend of mine was a fellow diplomat of lover of the united nations. thirty five forty years ago they worked together in a committee he said was super bright and you know super organized just the

professional diplomat you can see that no leverage gives a media conference without notes and he just talks about if you want to get right gets the language exactly right we have running out of time here and i want to ask quiz and one more question there is a presumption in the west that if putin of we're not in the kremlin that russian policy somehow would have been different that russia would be such a big star and in the side of the west and i get it from your book. you really chide she showed that russia's decisions recent decisions they comply with certain historical logic that there is certain continuity to decision making in russia if it wasn't put in let safe alexina vallone comes to power at this year or next year do you think the west should expect a dramatically different foreign policy line from russia i don't think there's any chance of developing coming to anybody else i mean any other lady if. later of the

communist party kind of power or it's. the daughter of a totally sobchak came to power i don't think that the huge difference is because as you've said there is a professionalism at the competence about the russian administrative class which which would continue well mr cameron we have to leave it there thank you very much for your time and to our viewers please keep the conversation going on our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on of also part. of.

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know we all knew this. but it does if it doesn't last i am not touching me in my life. i see none have to die. we bring you the week's top stories on our t.v. first claims and counterclaims fly between syria's war and parties and the government appears to be readying for an offensive against the country's last remaining rebel enclave plus. the german city of these violent clashes triggered by a local man's death by suspects the police described as being of various nationalities and. migrant and euro skeptic parties gain momentum in sweden the head of the of next week's general election amid a wave of parson attacks we visit a district in the capital that's been branded a no go zone. you're

watching the weekly here on r t a snapshot of top headlines from the past week thanks for joining us this hour. tensions have been growing between the warring parties in syria ahead of a possible government offensive to recapture provinces in the northwest washington claims that assad's forces may use chemical weapons if they launch an attack on the region which is largely controlled by islamist extremists russia has responded by saying that terrorists there are preparing a false flag chemical attack as a pretext for western intervention. syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use them there is no military necessity. for the russians to assert that the syrians have chemical weapons sensible people will not use militarily useless means to draw the fire of three powerful countries upon

themselves the russians are claiming and this one other group started one of the chemical weapons and planning an attack and you know i think that's more false flag for poor. anytime you know because there's enough for me to try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into that. the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nusra that we believe these egotistical unilateral political games counterproductive. the stage is set for a final and it looks like a bloody battle the battle for a glib tens of thousands of islamists rebels from all over syria and the world against the syrian army and its allies no wonder then that the stakes here are like never before i q stations provocation and chemical scandal it's not an even

fight the syrian army is stronger which means jihad all the help they can get from abroad. following the alleged go to chemical attack russia's warning that rebels will try to stage as similar incident in need to draw the u.s. france and britain in get them to hit a sad again russia says an incident is imminent especially after the u.s. and allies jointly stated that they would act if it looks like as had launched another chemical attack that's almost an invitation to do so says moscow.

now when the u.s. is steering the situation around we want to know how can damascus have chemical weapons if the u.s. france and great britain destroyed them last year you know what the u.s. answers we never said. fronts to the chemical weapons provocation which is being prepared is aimed at keeping al nasra they're counting on using it against the so-called regime as they call it it's do or die for the g. harvests rebels nowhere left to run nothing left to lose and their sponsors the west the gulf which have pumped billions upon billions of dollars into a cause that is on its last legs the mascot's and moscow are trying to work out a deal to reduce perhaps avoid the bloodshed but the giardiasis aren't up for it syria russia adamant this swamp of terror and zealotry has no future.

this is the last place for the terrorists so from all points of view this abscess should be removed of course what everybody's fearful of is escalation given the us russian military buildup in the region everyone has a gun pointed at each other and given that this is it the final act of the syrian war the urge to shoot might just be overwhelming the united states doesn't believe that the rebels have that capability whereas there is tremendous documentation to show that they do have the capability they've probably been storing it for months if not years in the province and they have used it in the past they have that capability and it is a last ditch hold for them so it cannot be ruled out and it's not it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the u.s. is trying to get assad out they're going to continue trying and and even though

donald trump wants to. get the u.s. out of syria there are elements within the u.s. government that don't want that to happen. saturday. clashes in the german city of kenneth's between anti migrant protesters and rival groups left eighteen people injured and some multiple arrests the city has been hit by an arrest throughout the week after the stabbing of a local man here's a round up of what's been happening i. love. this murder has affected us too even though we had nothing to do with it we're still having to pay the price even though we did nothing.

if you seen this place you're behind me a lot of crime said you of us drugs and so on to steal everything and so on and it's too much and i think we must help people but now it's too much. to be honest i'm ashamed of this city where these right wing extremists spread hate like that we should leave and piece together with the refugees. what we have seen and calmness is something that has no place in a constitutional state it's become

a witch hunt mob spewing hate to now streets these has no place in our country. the way you want when you stream is tough capitalized on this terrible heinous crime is tasteless and a horror and we reject it there's not. sceptical when people who look for it are being attacked in the course of a spontaneous rally. and to migrant protesters have also been displaying photos of people who they claim have been assaulted by asylum seekers living flaws in germany's own legal enforcement systems with more details our europe correspondent peter oliver. migration policy in germany is firmly in focus right now but what to do when it's been decided that the person doesn't have the right to be here and should be deported well at the bizarre end of the spectrum is the case of one man in frankfurt who the city's office of public order confirmed to r.t. its how a whopping five hundred and forty two criminal investigations against him the man

who doesn't have a passport can't be deported because the authorities can't prove which nation he originally comes from oh and by the way this has been going on since ninety ninety eight over the last twenty years most of his offenses have involved drug charges driving offenses driving without a license and violations of the residency act but who year is remains a mystery we have a loose spiral graphy that suggests that he was born in one nine hundred fifty nine in north africa in the past he said that he was from morocco and also from algeria it could be that he is from one of those two countries or it could be from somewhere entirely different opposition figures say that this case shows the flaws in the current system in germany but i'm not surprised this is the most extraordinary case the most ridiculous case so to speak it's a failure of system it's a failure of the government i think if the government really wanted to extradite

people so they could do it but they don't dare to do it because they're afraid of the left wing media. would protest and they're n.g.o.s so-called human rights organisations they protest against of even try to prevent physically the extradition of people the most recent statistics for this year show that more than half of deportation orders were carried out the most common reason for this is that when authorities turn up at the door address where somebody was supposed to live. they're not there and they can't be found however this year we've seen a sharp rise in the number of people who've avoided deportation after they physically resisted reaper three ation of people that don't have the right to be here in germany is on the list for angela merkel on their tour around africa we have a situation now where not all problems have been solved especially deporting us.